River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-03
Temperance.
CONDUCTED BY THEW. C. 7. U.
For God and Home and Matire Land.
Regular meeting of the Union TO

Regular meeting of the Union for
election of officers, on Friday, at Mrs.
Perley Knowles, at O'Clock. Let all
remember the date and place of meet
ing.
An urgent appeal comes for help in
the prohibition campaign, from tn
| northern peninsula of Michigan.
lumber and mining region, with nr
towns growing rapidly in which
loon influences reign. Hence it neeu
| help more than the southern peninsul
which in many parts is s rOngly pro
| hibition in sentiment. Lying outside
| the common routes of travel, especially
at this season of the year it is likely
TO be neglected. But it is important
| that the amendment be carried or at
least poll a large vote in the upper
peninsula, even if carried by the state
which would be doubtful. 1t would
for years remain a dead letter there
Here is missionary work. Who are
ready to do itl Let all such write to
Mrs. r. p. Luten, Iron Mountain, Me-
nomonee 20. Michigan.
Miss WiIlard's Three Weeks of
| Campaigning" in the last two Signals
| are full of interest.
Miss Toby, president of the Massa-
chusetts w. C. L. u, locks for the
submission question to be met with a
favorable reception by their legisla.
ture. Miss Willard speaks in that state
before its adjournment.
Tax Payers, Attention.!
The County of Cook. in the state of
| Illinois, in which is situated the city
of Chicago, has High License law
| which legaliZeS the saloon, makes them
the centers of political power, and the
pest holes of political corruption.
They have been Growing out and over
| the large revenue they get from the
J saloon system, and certain estimabie
men are trTing to secure a similar law
| for Penn. Texas, New York and else
| where, pointing all their morals and
| all their appeals TO the pocket, and
| with the figures showing the revenue
derived in Chicago. And now it tran
| spires that in spite of its blood money,
Cook county has an empty treasury and
| $780, 900 of outstanding debt. This,
mind you, is outside OF the city itself.
1t is to the county treasury the liquor
revenue goes, and il is the county
treasury that is drained dry, first by
the rascally officials whom the saloon
has put in power, second, by criminals,
paupers and insane which the saloon
has created. Compare this with At
lanta which within few months after
Prohibition land that but partial) re.
duced taxes from 40 cents on 500, to
80 cents and had surplus revenue in
the treasury of over $4,000. The
saloon is the worst investment the tax
payers can make, and High License
doesn't improve 1t even as an invest
ment.-[New York Voice.
Go and do something for 1.-THE least
of these" That is how we work for
our Christs vino have been lifted up.
Do their errands; be link yourself in
the divine chain. and feel the JOY and
the life of it. The moment you give
yourself you shall feel that.-lM Mrs. A.
d. L. Whitney.
Uncle Abram (reading). "De brack
murd'rer OF Jer'miah Johnsing pays
de extreme penalty OBJ de law. Now
dat's what / neber could onder-
stan nohow. Why'd 'ey wait until de
murdring's all done for dey hang int
Pears like t 'ud be powerful sight
better to hang de murd'rer befO he
kills sumbody; den dey save one niger
shore. II Harper's Weekly.
We could not help following out the
though sugges ed by reading the
above, that we close our drunkard max
ing factories before any more drunk
ards are made, for they are being
made every day, and all the restriction
and regulation does not make one the
less; 50 why should we try these meth
DDS any longer, and what right nave
we to help sustain such an enormous
wrong! .sLove worketh no i'll to his
neighbor. therefore love is the fulfill
ing of the law"
! Think Of these things.